Episodes

May 19, 2025

How to Change the World in 2 minutes

About How to change the world where we explore the history and future of invention, innovation, and era defining technology

May 20, 2025

Introduction to How to Change the World - Dissecting the History & Future of Innovation

About the show How to change the world where we explore the history and future of invention, innovation, and era defining technology

May 21, 2025

[Stone Age] - Innovation Locks: The 5 Progress Blockers for 97% of Human History

Timeless lessons on what really creates human progress

June 4, 2025

Innovation Richter Scale: How Much Do Technology and Ideas Change World History?

What really matters to humanity and what is just noise? How to rank the impact of a given invention, innovation or technology on humanity and the wider world.

June 27, 2025

[~1.8 Mya] - Fire: The Innovation that Forged Humanity and Sparked World Domination

How fire changed our species, let us take over the world and drove the industrial revolution

July 9, 2025

The Laws of Nature: 3 Rules Governing the Success of Any Organism, Idea & Technology

The three laws of biology presented in the lessons of history that determine the survival of inventions, movements and populations

Aug. 18, 2025

[~70,000BCE] - The Cognitive Revolution: Language and the birth of Art, Religion, Shame and Execution

How complex language evolved with our imagination and transformed human society completely

Sept. 10, 2025

Systems Thinking: How to Dance with Chaos and Build Hope in a Changing World

Understanding the currents the change the world and our lives. Looking beyond cause and effects we study the interconnected nature of reality and what shapes outcomes all around us

Oct. 15, 2025

[~64,000BCE] - The Bow & Arrow with a Brief History of Stone Age Weapon Technologies

The evolution of weapons across ancient history as stone tools shaped humanity. From the first stone flakes with a sharp edge to refined spears and eventually the bow and arrow. This episode traces the arc of human progress and how our weapons shaped our own bodies and societies.

Oct. 30, 2025

Thinking in Primitives: A mental model to dissect the foundations of Civilization, Humanity & Creativity

Understanding the building blocks of the world around us that unlock creativity and innovation. You can't make a good cake without the right ingredients. Likewise you can't invent new technology without the components required for it. This episode looks at the idea of how to create new forms of …

Nov. 17, 2025

NEWS: Patreon Is Live - Giving you more history, more science and more mind bending facts about naked chimpanzees (us)

Behind the scenes access to extra content, surprising stories and all sorts of chaos from the weird pages of history and the even weirder insides of Sam's mind. Learn how to support the show and support our philosophical dissection of the entire history of innovation.

Dec. 2, 2025

[~52,000BC] The Eyed Needle: The History of Clothes, Fashion, Beauty and Status Games

How humanity invented clothes. Accidentally warping our psychology, sparking civilization, and changing what it means to be human forever. A quick tour though the entire ancient history of clothing. From the first time a human stole an animal skin to the invention of the loom and farming cotton.…